Turner becomes the first Ohio State basketball player to earn the Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year Award and the third Buckeye in any sport to take home the trophy. A junior guard from Chicago, Turner racked up a slew of national accolades, winning the Wooden Award, Naismith and Oscar Robertson trophies as well as being named National Player of the Year by the Associated Press, Basketball Times, National Association of Basketball Coaches and Sporting News. The conference’s consensus Player of the Year, Turner was the Most Outstanding Player of the Big Ten Tournament and was named to a litany of All-America teams. He set a Big Ten record with 10 career Player of the Week selections, including seven in 2009-10. In his junior campaign, Turner led the Big Ten with 20.4 points and 9.2 rebounds per game, ranking second with 6.0 assists per contest. With the performance, he became the only player in Ohio State history to tally over 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists and 150 steals in a career. He recorded 16 double-doubles in 2009-10, including five consecutive to open the season, giving him 27 in his career. He also became one of just 34 players in NCAA Division I history to record multiple triple-doubles in a season, accomplishing the feat on Nov. 9 and Nov. 24, 2009.How do you follow-up a prestigious award like this, you ask? By going in the top three of tomorrow night's NBA Draft, of course.
Turner Named Big Ten Male Athlete of the Year
Evan Turner became the first Buckeye to win the Big Ten's Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year Award since Blaine Wilson (gymnastics) in 1997.
From the conference release:
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Who the f won in '06?
"With the performance, he became the only player in Ohio State history to tally over 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists and 150 steals in a career. "
Is Turner the best player in OSU history? Im 29 so I cant really compare him to players from the great teams of the 60's but Id have to say he is. Id take him over Jim Jackson, Oden, Redd and just about anyone else I can think of. The above stat line is unreal when you think about how many great players has come through OSU and to know he did it in only 3 years is remarkable. Can anyone else think of someone they'd rather have?
Peter Vanderkaay of Michigan, swimming and diving
a scUM swimmer beating out troy is gut wrenching
Troy Smith may be released.
http://www.rotoworld.com/conte...
He's likely the greatest player of our era at least.
My dad (and guys his age) would pick Jerry Lucas, for sure. I never saw Lucas play, but he was named to SI's All-Century starting five back in '99, and that's good enough to convince me.
I wont argue against that
what's worse is he not only beat out troy, he beat out oden, conley, ginn jr too, among others
Lucas gets my vote as the best all time player. He was an amazIng player both as a Buckeye and a pro. Turner may have surpassed him had he opted for another year at OSU. He will have to work to be as good as Lucas was as a pro.
Didn't Scoonie Penn share the 1999 award with Luke Donald?
not according to the B10 http://www.bigten.org/trads/bi...
At least they are still good in some sport. Congrats on the great swimmer that no one has ever heard of!
Wikipedia had Penn and Donald as co-winners that year. I went ahead and fixed the mistake.